Usman Dastgeer

I am a Ph.D. student at Linköping University. My supervisor is Prof. Dr. Christoph Kessler.

Contact information

	Usman Dastgeer Dept. of Computer and Information Science Linköpings universitet SE-581 83 Linköping Sweden
	E-mail: <firstname> DOT <lastname> AT liu DOT se
	Landline: +46 13 28 57 53
	Fax: +46 13 285899
	B 3B:486 (see map)
	Member of: Programming Environments Laboratory (PELAB) Software and Systems (SaS)

Research

My research is about omptimized component composition for heterogeneous multi-core architectures (CPUs, GPUs). I am working on EU FP7 project PEPPHER.

Publications

Peer Reviewed Conference and Workshop Papers

Lu Li, Usman Dastgeer, Christoph Kessler. Pruning strategies in adaptive off-line tuning for optimized composition of components on heterogeneous systems. To appear in Proc. MCC'12 Fifth Swedish Workshop on Multicore Computing, Nov. 2012, Stockholm.
Mudassar Majeed, Usman Dastgeer, Christoph Kessler. Structured Development of Scalable Scientific Applications for GPU Clusters. To appear in Proc. MCC'12 Fifth Swedish Workshop on Multicore Computing, Nov. 2012, Stockholm.
Usman Dastgeer, Lu Li, Christoph Kessler. The PEPPHER Composition Tool: Performance-Aware Dynamic Composition of Applications for GPU-based Systems. To appear in: Proc. 2012 Int. Workshop on Multi-Core Computing Systems (MuCoCoS 2012), Nov. 16, 2012, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, in conjunction with the Supercomputing Conference (SC12).
Lu Li, Usman Dastgeer, Christoph Kessler. Adaptive off-line tuning for optimized composition of components for heterogeneous many-core systems. Accepted for the Seventh International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning (iWAPT-2012), 17 July 2012, Kobe, Japan. To appear in: Proc. VECPAR-2012 Conference, Kobe, Japan, July 2012.
Christoph Kessler, Usman Dastgeer, Samuel Thibault, Raymond Namyst, Andrew Richards, Uwe Dolinsky, Siegfried Benkner, Jesper Larsson Träff and Sabri Pllana. Programmability and Performance Portability Aspects of Heterogeneous Multi-/Manycore Systems. Proc. DATE-2012 conference on Design Automation and Testing in Europe, Dresden, March 2012.
Usman Dastgeer and Christoph Kessler. A performance-portable generic component for 2D convolution computations on GPU-based systems. Proc. MULTIPROG-2012 Workshop at HiPEAC-2012, Paris, Jan. 2012.
Akhtar Ali, Usman Dastgeer and Christoph Kessler. OpenCL on shared memory multicore CPUs. Proc. MULTIPROG-2012 Workshop at HiPEAC-2012, Paris, Jan. 2012.
Usman Dastgeer and Christoph Kessler. Flexible Runtime Support for Efficient Skeleton Programming on Heterogeneous GPU-based Systems. ParCo 2011: International Conference on Parallel Computing. Ghent, Belgium, 2011.
Usman Dastgeer, Johan Enmyren, and Christoph Kessler. Auto-tuning SkePU: A Multi-Backend Skeleton Programming Framework for Multi-GPU Systems. Proc. IWMSE-2011, Hawaii, USA, May 2011, ACM (pdf).
A previous version of this article was also presented at: Proc. Fourth Workshop on Programmability Issues for Multi-Core Computers (MULTIPROG-2011), January 23, 2011, in conjunction with HiPEAC-2011 conference, Heraklion, Greece.
Johan Enmyren, Usman Dastgeer and Christoph Kessler. Towards a Tunable Multi-Backend Skeleton Programming Framework for Multi-GPU Systems. Proc. MCC-2010 Third Swedish Workshop on Multicore Computing, Gothenburg, Sweden, Nov. 2010.

Book Chapters

Christoph W. Kessler, Sergei Gorlatch, Johan Enmyren, Usman Dastgeer, Michel Steuwer, Philipp Kegel: Skeleton Programming for Portable Many-Core Computing. Book Chapter, 20 pages, in: S. Pllana and F. Xhafa, eds., Programming Multi-Core and Many-Core Computing Systems, Wiley Interscience, New York, to appear in July 2012.

Invited Papers

Usman Dastgeer, Lu Li, Christoph Kessler: Performance-Aware Dynamic Composition of Applications or Heterogeneous Multicore Systems with the PEPPHER Composition Tool. Proc. 16th Int. Workshop on Compilers for Parallel Computers (CPC-2011), Padova, Italy, Jan. 2012.

Thesis

Skeleton Programming for Heterogeneous GPU-based Systems. Licentiate thesis. Thesis No 1504. Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, October, 2011 (LIU EP)
Coordination and Logistic Aspects in Computer Based Training for Emergency Situations. Masters thesis, Linköping University, 2009. (pdf)

Teaching

I am a laboration/course assistant in the following courses:

TDDC78 Programming of parallel computers - methods and tools (2012-)
TDDD05 Component Based Software (2010-2011)
TDDD04 Software Testing (2010-2012)
DF21500 Multicore Computing (2011)

Thesis supervision

I am supervisor in the following thesis projects:

Lu Li: Translating C/C++ applications to a task-based representation. Electronic version.
Akhtar Ali: Comparative study of parallel programming models for multicore computing.. MULTIPROG 2012 paper accepted.
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Thesis projects

For information about thesis projects, see Christoph Kessler's exjobb-page.

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